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TITLE 46 - SHIPPING
CHAPTER I - COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
SUBCHAPTER D - TANK VESSELS
PART 30 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
30.10 - 20 - Deadweight or DWTTB/ALL.
The term deadweight or DWT means the difference in metric tons between the lightweight displacement and the total displacement of a vessel measured in water of specific gravity 1.025 at the load waterline corresponding to the summer freeboard assigned according to 46 CFR, subchapter E.
[CGD 74127, 41 FR 3843, Jan. 26, 1976]
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